Jerzy wrote:
Uzytkownik "Taylor Kingston" napisal w wiadomosci
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On Oct 23, 1:48 am, wrote:
"Loss of Quality with a Gain of Tempo".

(Loss of quality: bishop/knight for rook)

What a lousy translation....

Nonetheless it is a literature classics :-)


The original, not the transation.


True, but the material imbalance of a rook for a minor piece, which
in English is called "the Exchange," is I believe called by the
equivalent of "the quality" in some other languages. For example, if
memory serves, it's called "la calidad" in Spanish. Perhaps those
fluent in other languages can tell us here by what other names it is
known.


In Russian a sacrifice of a rook for a bishop or a knight is called
sometimes a sacrifice of a quality i.e. "zhertva katchestva". The same is in
Polish, maybe after Russian chess literature.